CPN-CORE: A Text Semantic Similarity System Infused with Opinion Knowledge

*SEM 2013 - 2nd Joint Conference on Lexical and Computational Semantics

Volumn 1, Issue , 2013, Pages 221-228

  Banea, Carmen ^a   Choi, Yoonjung ^b   Deng, Lingjia ^b   Hassan, Samer ^c   Mohler, Michael ^d   Yang, Bishan ^e   Cardie, Claire ^e   Mihalcea, Rada ^a   Wiebe, Janyce ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH TEXAS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

^c GOOGLE INC   (United States)

^d Language Computer Corporation   (United States)

^e Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

KNOWLEDGE BASED SYSTEMS; KNOWLEDGE MANAGEMENT; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MACHINE COMPONENTS;

KNOWLEDGE BASED; OPINION ANALYSIS; PARTICIPATING SYSTEMS; SEMANTIC REPRESENTATION; SEMANTIC SIMILARITY; SYSTEM VARIATIONS; TEXT SIMILARITY; TEXTUAL SIMILARITIES;

SEMANTICS;

EID: 84943746671     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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